South Highland School
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- This article is about the public school, for the private girls' school see South Highland School for Girls.
| South Highland School | |
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Birmingham City Schools |
| Years | 1880s–? |
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| Location | 2030 Magnolia Avenue, (map) Five Points South |
| Grades | ? |
| Principal | ? |
| Enrollment | ? () |
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The South Highland School was a public school located at 2030 Magnolia Avenue on the corner of 21st Street South, built by the Town of Highland in the late 1880s and later taken over by Birmingham City Schools when the town was annexed into Birmingham in 1893.
The building was renovated with a new forced-air furnace in 1909. Miller & Martin were the architects for that work.
Virginia Durr was a pupil at South Highland School in the 1910s. Birmingham City Schools first implemented the platoon system at the school, then the largest elementary school in the city, in 1919.
The school closed in 1964 and was demolished in the next few years for construction of the Building Trades Tower apartments.
Principals
- T. C. Young, 1920
References
- Weeks, J. D. (2007) Birmingham Then and Now. Then and Now Series. Mount Pleasant, South Carolina: Arcadia Press. ISBN 9780738543666